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Did Brett Kavanaugh flunk his first test as an Originalist?

Damon Root writes in Reason,

If Brett Kavanaugh is a committed originalist, you would never know it based on his complacent behavior in Timbs v. Indiana.

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What he did on his first week on the Supreme Court

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Guess who was driving the Oldsmobile at Chappaquiddick?

Satirical blogger Manhattan Infidel has another scoop.

Shocking new evidence has recently been unearthed that explains why the feminist senator Ted Kennedy waited 10 hours to report the accident at Chappaquiddick: He wasn’t in the car!

Guess who was driving? Brett Kavanaugh! Read the whole thing here.

Kavanaugh's first day at the Supreme Court: Whom did he hire?

On his first day on the job, Brett Kavanaugh has hired as many black law clerks as liberal justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has hired in her entire career at the Supreme Court. Kevin Daley reports at The Daily Caller,

With his first clerkship hires, Kavanaugh also set a gender composition record, an apparent attempt to buck the high court’s hiring patterns, which tend to favor white, male graduates of elite law schools.

Since joining the high court in 1993, Ginsburg has hired over 100 law clerks, just one of whom is black.

Kavanaugh’s new clerks are Shannon Grammel, Megan Lacy, Sara Nommensen and Kim Jackson. These hires set a record in a second respect: Kavanaugh is the first Supreme Court justice to hire an all female class of clerks.

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Jordan Peterson tweets, "If confirmed, Kavanaugh should step down."

Diasappointing.

Brett's bar fight in 1985

The New York Times has a police report from the New Haven police about a bar fight Brett got into while a Yale student in 1985. Brett threw his beer into the face of someone who was angry at Brett. Read more here.

Wouldn't he be older than 53?

The Babylon Bee has this headline:

Democrats Demand Kavanaugh Submit To DNA Test To Prove He’s Not Actually Hitler

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New York Times and AP go after Kavanaugh's wife

John Hinderaker asks at PowerLine,

When Stephen Breyer, Ruth Ginsburg, Sonia Sotamayor and Elena Kagan were appointed to the Court, did the Times, or the Associated Press, try to investigate documents sent or received by their family members?

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Brett Kavanaugh is Trump's pick

Trump's pick for the Supreme Court is Brett Kavanaugh. All Glenn Reynolds has to say is,

IT’S BRETT KAVANAUGH. With a narrow majority, Trump goes for a safe pick. Of course, he’ll still be Hitler. Because whoever the nominee was, he or she was going to be Hitler.